Kid
===

<http://lesscode.org/projects/kid/>

About
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Kid is a simple Python based template language for XML vocabularies.  It was
spawned as a result of a kinky love triangle between XSLT, TAL, and PHP. We
believe many of the best features of these languages live on in Kid with
much of the limitations and complexity stamped out.


Copyright and License
---------------------

Kid is Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Ryan Tomayko and is licensed under a
standard MIT license. For more information on copying see the file
``COPYING`` in source distribution.


System Requirements
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Kid has been tested with Python 2.3 and 2.4 on Linux (Fedora Core 2/3),
Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.3.

Kid requires Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package, available at:

   <http://effbot.org/downloads/#elementtree>


Install
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Extract the source tarball, change into the newly created directory, and
execute `setup.py`. Something like the following should do::

    $ gzip -dc kid-0.x.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    $ cd kid-0.x
    $ python setup.py install

Without any extra arguments to ``setup.py``, this will install the following
items:

  1. Python libraries to your site-packages directory.

  2. The ``kidc`` and ``kid`` commands to your "scripts" directory. This
     is usually ``/usr/local/bin`` under Linux.

Use ``python setup.py install --help`` for information on tweaking the
install.


More
----

Documentation specific to this release in both text and HTML formats can be
found under the doc directory or on the web at:

  http://lesscode.org/doc/kid/

More info can be found on the Kid project site, which includes a wiki and
bug/enhancement tracker:

  http://lesscode.org/projects/kid/

To ask questions, discuss Kid usage, join the mailing list:

  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kid-template-discuss

Read my weblog:

  http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/

Authors/Contributors
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* Ryan Tomayko (Primary author/contact and maintainer of the Kid project.)
* Christoph Zwerschke (Coding)
* Ross Burton (Debian package maintainer)
